Installation with living fungi, video and photographs (2015 – 2016)
Growing Geometries – tattooing mushrooms explores the morphology of fungi and evolution of geometrical shapes on living and growing membranes. As part of Theresa Schubert’s PhD research on agency in biomedia art, human and nonhuman relationships are investigated with a focus on methods of generating images by nature. The deeply anthropocentric gesture of tattooing puts the fungi closer to mankind and helps to translate a growth process into an aesthetic experience.
Biography:
Theresa Schubert (DE) is a Berlin-based artist exploring unconventional visions of nature, technology, and the self. She holds a PhD in media art from the Bauhaus University, Weimar. Her works question the relationship of humans to their environment and evolution of matter and meaning beyond the anthropos. She has been awarded with a STARTS Vertigo Residency (2019) funded by the European Commission. She is also artist in residence (2018-20) at the Department of Applied and Molecular Microbiology at TU Berlin and received a postdoc scholarship from the Bauhaus University, Weimar (2019-20).
